1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review and Methodological Concerns -- 3 The German Corporations Database (GCD) -- 4 Frequency, Causes, and Consequences of Control Transfers -- 5 Determinants of Acquisition and Failure -- 6 Corporate Governance, Market Discipline, and Productivity Growth -- 7...

This book evaluates formally the theory of rational bubbles. A general procedure for deriving rational bubbles is provided in the first part of the book. All bubble processes discussed in literature so far could be obtained by the procedure presented. Furthermore, the set of bubble processes has...